The Wilmingtonian., 1887-04-02
ADVERTISING RATES.
SATURDAY, APRIL ., 1887.
The Administrator and Poor Guiitord
Miller.


miller.
Iufegard to the shameful treatment OF the
western homesteader Guilfold Miller and bis
tyrannical treatment by the department Of
Injustice the New York Herald Of Satur- |
last said as follows:
''We beg the President, while he IS COR
sidering the Garlaud-Jenks opinion turning
poor Guilford Miller of his farm to give it
70 the Northern Pacific Railroad, to take
good look at the man who by the use OF the
meanest machine methods deceived Mr.
Cleveland into making him Attorney-Gener-
al.
If he will do this be will see clearly that
this Mr.. Garland is the mere tool and SER
want OF corporations, and that he is a man
unft to be part of reform Presidents
Cabinet. To help the President to just
conclusion we will give him to-day single
instance OF Mr., Garlaud's readiness to serve
corporations.
Mr. Cleveland and everybody else remem-
bers the scandal about the so-called "Hoar
Pacific Railroad Funding bill," This bill
was prepared in the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee and was reported to the Senate from
that august committee, with its guarantee
that IT was all right, honest and far to the
people. When it was, at the desire OF an ln-
quisitive Senator referred to the Secretary
of the Treasury, it was discovered that one
of its srctions permitted the Pacific railroads
to pay the government many millions less
thau they justly owed, while another sec
ton allowed them to so manipulate thfir
debt as to enable them actually to bring the
government in debt to them, OF course,
when this accidental discovery was made at
the Treasury Department, the bill was
heard Of no more.
Now, then, If the President will make
the necessary inquiry he will discover that
his present Attorney General, Garland, wat
the responsible father of this swindling bill
in the interest Of tho land grant railroads
people and the Treasury. Mr.. CLEVELAND
will find that Garland, than Senator ant
member of the Judiciary Committee, WA
of the subcommittee which palmed thi
bill off on the committee and on the Senate
and we are assured thai Garland wrote TIL
report recommending it.
True to his connections, tlls same g u
land now gives it as his opinion that far
mer settling on public land fifty miles frou
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and maxim
his home there since 1884, shall be drive
of and his farm given 70 the corporation.
While Mr.. Cleveland is making the III
qury We suggest to him that We hope b
viii ask also how it IL that when the lay
officer of the Land Ofie gave an opinio
in favor OF Gulfoud Miller, anil when til
law officer of the Interior Department gay
q similar opinion, this case, vital 70 seVer q
thousand settlers, should not have reste,
there; why, with curious persistence, it wa
stil futher referr TO the Department q
Injustice, where two mep, Garland, know
to favor corporations, and jerks, nutoriou
through his own repeared declarations tia
the public domain ought to be got rid OF 8
quickly as possible, where asked to sit
final judgment upou the poor settlers whos
rights had been declared good by tile col
current Judgment of both the law office
of the Interior Department.?
This Gulioid Miller case affects sever
Thousand families, 1t is not going to re
with the Garland-Jehks opinion. o.
Washington correspondent sends us els
where another instance Of the greed al
bad faith Of the corporation 10 which Ga
land aud jerks, contrary to the opinion
the two experienced law officers OF the |
teliOr Depar tmen', now insist on givil
Guilford Milier's farm. Our cortespondt
sends US also an interview With Judge
+. PaysOn, member Of Congress from II
nois, whose mastery Of the public la
questions is known and ackuowledg,
Judge Payson declares that the rgseivati
Of Indemnity land ls without authority
law, and adds that Secretary Tell
acknowledged this to him.
We recommend the knights of Labor Al
all organizations OF farmers and workiu
men all over the country to pay attention
this matter, aud TO unite i'll Pelempto
demand fol justice. Ii may be that a smi
tar mar cannot stand up against two hu
dFed millions uf corporate capital, but
any rate it is worth while for tile people
whether the Garland jerks combine is t